Immediate Skin-To-Skin Care For Preterm Infants After Birth (eSCC)

Medical University of Graz

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Skin to Skin Care; Effect of Skin to Skin Care in Preterm Neonates

Treatments: Procedure: Standard Care (in control arm); Procedure: skin to skin care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06794164

1309/2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The standard procedure in our centre for preterm neonates is to enable skin-to-skin (SSC) contact within 24 hours after birth. As early SSC immediately after birth might provide numerous positive effects for mothers and their preterm neonates, the objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, the safety and the effect of skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth in preterm neonates born with gestational age between 26+0 and 32+0 weeks.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 30 minutes old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Gestational age between 26+0 and 32+0 weeks
• Written parental informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• No intention of full life support
• Severe congenital malformation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Early skin-to-skin care

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group

Treatment:

Procedure: skin to skin care

Standard care group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group

Treatment:

Procedure: Standard Care (in control arm)